The Right Time Is Right Now | The Virtue That Made Marcus Aurelius So Great

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Education, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We know what we want to do–or need to do. We need to quit that job. We need to have that hard conversation. We need to be more active in our community. We need to stop smoking or start eating healthy. We need to tell our crush we like them.

But when? That’s the question. Or at least, we tell ourselves that it is a question.

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Today, Ryan recounts one of the greatest stories in human history and talks about how Antoninus Pius taught Marcus Aurelius the most important virtue of all.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom
0:08.4	designed to help you in your everyday life.
0:11.4	On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual
0:16.7	lives.
0:17.7	Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.
0:25.6	The right time is right now.
0:31.3	We know what we want to do or need to do.
0:33.9	We need to quit that job.
0:35.2	We need to have that hard conversation.
0:37.0	We need to be more active in our community.
0:38.9	We need to stop smoking or start eating healthy.
0:42.4	But when, that's the question, or at least, we tell ourselves, that is a question.
0:48.0	The stoics, of course, would disagree.
0:49.8	The time they would say is now.
0:51.7	They'd agree with Martin Luther King, who said that the time is always right to do what
0:55.6	is right.
0:56.6	In fact, Marcus are really a king of a different sort.
0:59.5	In more than a name, with a much different set of incentives and interests in doing what
1:03.0	was right, said something similar many times.
1:06.2	Waste no more time talking about what a good man is like he said, be one.
1:10.4	You could be good today instead.
1:12.1	You choose tomorrow.
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